we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of healthcare and the size of our deficit. but we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the building this country and investing in the people that will build this future. for we remember the lessons of our past, when the years were af a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. we do not believe in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few. we recognize that no matter how responsibility we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job loss or sudden illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other, through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not set back our mission, they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. we, the people, still believe that our obligations of americans are not just to our selves but to all prosperity. we will respond to the threat of climate change. knowing that the failure to do so would bee tray our c